Refrigerator.



PATENTED APR. 21, 1908.V L. A.`BANTA.

RBFRIGBRATUR, APPLICATION FILED APB.. 24,1906.

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LEN A. BANTA, OF LIGONIR, INDIANA.

REFRIGERATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 21, 1908.

Application filed. April 24, 1906. Serial No. 313,423.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, LEN A. BANTA, a citizen of the United States, andresident of Ligonier, in the county of Noble and State of Indiana, haveinvented certain new and useful Imlprovements in Refrigerators, of whichthe fol owing is a full, clear, and exact description.

The aim of my invention is to provide a refrigerator simple ofconstruction and so arranged as to insure a moving air current withinthe refrigerator so that the temperature within the refrigerator may bepreserved more uniform, the construction further permitting the greatestamount of eiiiciency and my refrigerator com rises a certain specificconstruction hereina ter morefully described, and iinally pointed out inthe claims.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 shows a vertical sectional view ofa refrigerator embodying my invention While Fig. 2 discloses ahorizontal sectional view below the ice tray 7.

My refrigerator com rises a suitable hous-v ing including the bac 2, thefront 3 -provided with a suitable door 4, the bottom 6, the two similarsides 2 and the top 1.

Positioned within the corner within the ice box are four similar draftflues marked b, each comprising a three sided bent member preferably ofsheet metal, each draft liue beow being provided with a plurality ofopenings x and above terminating a suitable distance below the top 1 ofthe refrigerator so that a current of air may be permitted a readypassage to each of these four corner draft flues.

At a suitable point near the up er end within the refrigerator I providea p urality of supporting bars 5 which receive a tray 7 this traycatching the dripping Waterfrom the ice. Centrally this tray is providedwith an escape opening 8 which is rotected above by means of the shieldc as c early shown in Fig. 1. Held Within this tray 3 are a plurality ofhollow supfporting members 9, each made of-a piece o sheet metal bent toprovide three hollow supporting members forming draft flues which arehorizontally disposed and transversely positioned within therefrigerator. It will be noticed that these hollow supporting membersextend beyond the upper edge of the drip 'tray 7 so that currents of airwill readily pass over the edge of the tray and through these hollowsupporting members: Held by these hollow supporting members 9 is an iceshelf 10 preferably of sheet metal and bent in the form of V-shapedridges as clearly shown in Fig. 1 to provide a serrated surface so thatthe ice rests upon the point of each ridge, the water readily beingconducted along these ridges to drip into the tray. This ice shelf beingof a less diameter than the drip tray insuring all the water drippingfrom t e ice held upon the ice shelf in eing collected within the tray.

It will be noticed that the V-shaped sheet metal 'ice shelf againcomprises a number of horizontally disposed draft iues which come partlyabove the hollow supporting members A9 and above the tray as shown. Theshields c being secured to the ice itself.

At a suitable point there extends from the tray 8 a drip pipe d whichextends downward and empties in an ice-water tank f the pipe dterminating near the bottom of the ice water tank f as shown in Fig. 1.This ice water tank f is preferably circular and provided with thesupporting legs 3 which raises the ice-'Water tank a suitable distanceabove the iioor again providing a flue space so that a current of airmay pass between the ice-water tank f and the bottom of therefrigerator. This ice-water tank f is covered by means of a suitablelid e and extending from this tank is a drain pipe g beginning near thetop of the tank so that the cold water enters the ice-water tank nearthe bottom, the Warmer Water being drained off nea the to Wit in therefrigerator are positioned one or four shelves a of any approvedconstruction. The ice Water tank, is made air tight and the dripautomatically permits the water to escape. By this means it will benoticed that the articles placed within the refrigerator are positionedbetween two cooling mediums, the ice above and the ice-water tank below.This construction insures the economic use of ice while a preferredventilation is provided within the refrigerator and Having thusdescribed my said invention what I claim as new and desire to secure byU. S. Letters Patent is.

In a refrigerator, the combination with suitable supporting bars, of atray having a a serrated surface, and supported by said central liangeddrip opening, a shield above y flues7 substantially as set forth.

said opening', a plurality of hollow sheetl Signed in the presence oftwo witnesses. metal draft iiues supported by said tray and 1 1 Y, Wr xhorizontally disposed and transversely posi- LILA A BAB l A tionedWithin the tray, said flues being of a 4 Witnesses: height extendingbeyond the upper edge of FRANK P. BOTHWELL, said tray, and a sheet-metalioe shelf having BEULAH E. BOTIIWELL.

